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In Beatrix Potter’s imagination, Josephine Bunny was the hard-working single mother of Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-Tail, and Peter and was licensed to sell tea and tobacco.
With a business to run and four little ones to raise, Josephine had her hands full. She was exasperated when little Peter did not go obediently down the lane, like the others, to pick blackberries. She had taken the time to think up that creative, useful activity for her children, but Peter countered with his own.
This letter is for all the care-givers out there who have a Peter. Sometimes, it is easy to foster imagination in the Flopsies, Mopsies, and Cotton-Tails, but downright dangerous to even get out the glitter with a Peter. How can we encourage creativity and spark adventure for the busy, inquisitive, and often mischievous mind?
Dear Josephine,
Don’t let this latest escapade of Peter’s get you down.…
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Sarah Dixon Young 